Crossword 690

Prize: £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first correct solution opened on 28 January. Entries to: Crossword 690, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 9 Lover lost nothing. Capital! (4) 11 Articles about a menu (9) 12 In The Lamb' at Hereford (4) 16 Become stationary at sea, as `La Nouvelle Etoile' out East (5, two words) 17 Refuse from river (5) 20 Feeler from insect upset girl (7) 21 Box left inside (7) 28 Broken sob needs a remedy that's unexplained (7) 31 He's exhausted (back-strain) (7) 34 Weapon returned with a German part-exchange (7, hyphened) 37 Spoon in the salad left-overs (5) 39 The Scots saved their hall and dine out (6) 40 College fellow from the Valley (4) 41 Amazed fellow left to go to 42 Humble HQ (4) 43 Tribe's gladness over furniture (14, hyphened) DOWN 1 Plant yielding poison first collected in the mountains (6) 2 Bury with arms and legs (no head) (5) 3 Dine in a restaurant by River Pet in Scotland (6, two words) 4 Change loose dress (5) 5 Time to leave hurriedly, bringing up the brood (7) 6 Leapt the roof. Could be (7) 7 Preserving copper syndicate (6) 8 Provides for bears (8) 10 Clairvoyant's aid, where, in France, bad Rioja gets spilt (10, hyphened) 13 Tramp's state or rustic mood, perhaps (7) 15 Beverage a non-conformist raised over railway (8, hyphened) 18 Workers' accreditation from congress eccentrics (10, two words) 19 Pent up near noise (8, two words) 22 Eluded Sally Dee (7) 27 Stone tablet you once lifted revealing small holes (7) 29 Slaves who operate Ernie? (1) 32 A wasteland almost sent up the mignonette (6) 33 Keep staves outside large tubs (6)

35 Stick together about the heather (5)

36 Medicinal bottle containing name of wine (5)